Half an hour later, the brigade left Langang Station in two cars and a truck and headed in the direction of Hongtutun.

In the head car, there were three people, Qian Sinian, Jin Gusi, Su Na and Tang Qianlin, and Jin Gusi's eyes always fell on Tang Qianlin unconsciously, because he had a strong feeling that Tang Qianlin sitting beside him at this moment was definitely not the Tang Qianlin he saw in the Seven Star Caves.

Previously, Tang Qianlin quietly grabbed Zhang Guodong's tail, showing a kind of unscrupulous and reckless action, giving people a feeling that as long as he can achieve his goal, he can do anything.

Even if it is Qian Sinian, in the situation just now, even if he knows that Zhang Guodong has caused a catastrophe, but because of the atmosphere of the officialdom up and down Manchukuo, he will not be wiped out, and maybe he will cover it up from the side.

You know, as long as you have permission from the Manchurian government, you can grow opium. As long as the matter of private poppy cultivation in Hongtutun does not make a big fuss, and then a supplementary procedure can be made up and the opium tax can be paid, which was pointed out so bluntly by Tang Qianlin, even if Zhang Guodong atones for his crimes, he will not escape death in the end.

But the problem is that Tang Qianlin's previous approach didn't seem to be out of a sense of justice, just to solve the case.

The eyes of Li Yunfan, Yi Mochen and Ni Xiaowan in the second car were all fixed on the head car.

Li Yunfan glanced at the driver who was driving, and asked Yi Mochen in a low voice: "What do you think?" ”

Yi Mochen said: "It's very simple, Qianlin is back again." ”

Ni Xiaowan looked at him and said, "This is a good thing, right?" ”

Yi Mochen shook his head: "I hope, who knows." ”

Li Yunfan looked ahead and said, "I have a feeling that Tang Qianlin is treating us as a burden now." ”

The three of them fell silent again, and in the last truck, Zhang Guodong kept wiping his sweat, and the sweat had already soaked his handkerchief.

Qi Hongyun took out his handkerchief and handed it to Zhang Guodong: "Director Zhang, don't be afraid, maybe there is still room for salvation." ”

Zhang Guodong sighed: "What room is there? Company Commander Qi, who do you say is that Tang Advisor Tang Qianlin? Why did he just ...... in three or two clicks?"

Qi Hongyun didn't say anything, from the moment he witnessed Zhang Guodong being grabbed by Tang Qianlin's tail, he knew that he had to be cautious in this operation, because this surnamed Tang was so terrifying, he seemed to be able to see things that ordinary people couldn't see and details that couldn't be detected.

Although it is only 50 miles to Hongtutun, because of the warmer weather and the melting of snow, the road is full of mud, and the three cars wandered on the road for several hours until the evening, when they drove to the mountain road outside Hongtutun.

Qian Sinian asked the driver to stop, and after opening the door and getting out of the car, he beckoned Zhang Guodong to step forward and asked, "This is Hongtutun, right?" ”

Zhang Guodong half-bowed: "Back to the sir, this is Hongtutun." ”

Qian Sinian looked at it, and sure enough, as Zhang Guodong said, the soil that could be seen around Tunzi was all fiery red, and under the light of the setting sun, the whole Tunzi was like a pot of fire.

Qi Hongyun picked up the telescope and looked around: "This tunzi is a basin, in our northeast, such terrain is rare." ”

Li Yunfan, Yi Mochen and Ni Xiaowan looked at the dead red soil tun below, and they felt very uncomfortable.

Jinguth squatted there, looked at the map in his hand, and then said, "Director Zhang, where are the poppies planted in Hongtutun?" ”

Zhang Guodong immediately said: "Back to the chief, it's in the cedar twilight forest." ”

Jinguth wondered: "In the woods? ”

Zhang Guodong said: "Yes." ”

Qian Sinian waved his hand and said: "Get in the car, after entering the village, park the car on the Tianba at the head of the village, Commander Qi, you take people into the village to search." ”

Although Hongtutun looks close at hand, because the road into the village is built along the mountain, you have to go around the side of the mountain and go down the valley, so the car drove for about ten minutes to come to the Tianba at the entrance of the village.

After getting out of the car, Qian Sinian turned to look at the road he came: "The terrain of this tunzi is too good, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if the Communist Party occupies this place, as long as it is stubbornly defended to the pass, it will be difficult to attack it." ”

After Qian Sinian finished speaking, he looked at Li Yunfan with a meaningful smile.

The soldiers of the guard platoon jumped out of the car under Qi Hongyun's order, and after lining up, Qi Hongyun ordered: "Divide into two teams, a team of 10 people will enter the village to search, remember, don't shoot at will when you see villagers, unless you are attacked." ”

After the soldiers received the order, they walked towards the village under the leadership of Qi Hongyun.

Qian Sinian walked up to Tang Qianlin and asked, "Consultant Tang, what do you think about this matter?" ”

Tang Qianlin said: "I have no evidence, now I can only rely on my intuition, and my intuition tells me that the disappearance of the people in Hongtutun is directly related to the Nightmare Flower." ”

Qian Sinian nodded: "It's the same as I thought." ”

Tang Qianlin said again: "I'll go into the village and have a look." ”

Li Yunfan and Yi Mochen glanced at each other when they heard this, and Ni Xiaowan hurriedly said, "Uncle Shi, I'm going too." ”

Tang Qianlin glanced at her and did not object, Ni Xiaowan immediately hugged the jelly beans and followed Tang Qianlin into the village.

Qian Sinian leaned next to the car and lit a cigarette, looked at Li Yunfan and said, "What?" Section Chief Li, don't you and Boss Yi plan to go in and have a look? ”

Li Yunfan gave Yi Mochen a look, and the two walked in the other direction of the village.

After the two left, a spy stepped forward and said, "Section Chief Qian, do you want to keep an eye on the two of them?" ”

Qian Sinian shook his head: "There's no need for that." ”

Qian Sinian said, looking at Zhang Guodong, who was still sweating not far away, as if he was going to be shot in the next second.

Qian Sinian nodded to Jingus, who carried his bag on his back, turned around and walked towards Tunzizhong, and soon disappeared from Qian Sinian's sight.

After Tang Qianlin and Ni Xiaowan entered the village, Tang Qianlin just walked in the village, and did not enter the house to see, after walking around the village, Tang Qianlin returned to the entrance of the village, and then returned the same way, walked to the land temple at the entrance of the village and squatted down to watch.

Ni Xiaowan stood there holding jelly beans and recited the couplet on the land temple: "It is very fair to respect the father-in-law, and the soil will succeed and become the emperor in the future; Mother-in-law has a mother-in-law's heart, and the earth is selfless and deed. ”

Tang Qianlin said: "It seems that all the people living in this village are Han people who used to go to the eastern part of the country, and the Manchus do not have the custom of worshipping the land lords. ”

After Tang Qianlin finished speaking, he walked towards the village, walked into a house, looked around, and walked straight to the kitchen.

Ni Xiaowan followed Tang Qianlin into the kitchen and watched Tang Qianlin rummaging through the jars and jars in the kitchen.

Ni Xiaowan asked, "Uncle Shi, what are you doing in the kitchen?" ”

Tang Qianlin said: "China has a vast land and abundant resources, and people in various provinces have different diets, and you can see from the kitchen where they came from before. ”

Ni Xiaowan looked around: "Then do you see it?" ”

Tang Qianlin held up a jar of chili sauce and said, "What do you think?" ”

Ni Xiaowan said: "Chili sauce? Hunanese? ”

Tang Qianlin dipped his fingers in some chili sauce, and then handed it to Ni Xiaowan: "You taste it." ”

Ni Xiaowan tasted it and said, "Well, it's so spicy, it's from Hunan." ”

Tang Qianlin shook his head: "No, it's from Sichuan." Hunan people and Sichuan people's chili sauce practices are different, there is a fundamental difference, Hunan people don't like to eat peppercorns, they eat spicy and not hemp, this kind of chili sauce is fried with peppercorns, so it is definitely not Hunan. ”

Ni Xiaowan nodded: "So that's the case." ”

Tang Qianlin walked out of the kitchen, looked around and said: "And this tunzi is different from other tunzi in the northeast in terms of architectural style, there is almost no such building with blue tile and powder wall in the northeast, and standing on a high place, it can be said that it is light and exquisite, simple and natural, and the tunzi in the northeast is not so exquisite, so the people who live here must be Sichuan people from the east of the country." ”

Ni Xiaowan said: "Shouldn't the most people who come from the east of the country be from Shandong?" ”

Tang Qianlin walked out of the courtyard: "Broadly speaking, as long as people in the customs come to make a living outside the gates, they are called breaking into the east of the country. I think that this group of Sichuan people should not have been in Hongtutun for a long time, it should not be more than ten years, or even shorter. ”

Ni Xiaowan asked, "Why?" ”

Tang Qianlin said: "If they really came here during the Tongzhi period, it is impossible for the eating habits and architectural style to be preserved so thoroughly. ”

Ni Xiaowan followed behind Tang Qianlin with a look of admiration: "Uncle Shi, how come you know everything?" ”

Tang Qianlin didn't answer, walked into the courtyard next door, and after entering, he walked around the hall and walked straight to the side room where he slept.

After entering the house, Tang Qianlin touched the kang of the fire, squatted down and looked at the inside of the kang cave, and then immediately got up and went to the second house, also checked the kang cave, and after looking at seven households in a row, Tang Qianlin finally said with certainty: "The people in the tunzi have not disappeared." ”

Ni Xiaowan was puzzled: "Didn't disappear?" What does it mean? ”

Tang Qianlin was not in a hurry to explain, but just went out to greet the soldiers who walked by and called Qi Hongyun.

Qi Hongyun stepped forward and saluted: "Advisor Tang, what do you command?" ”

Tang Qianlin asked, "Did you find anything?" ”

Commander Qi replied: "No, I haven't seen half a figure, it's too strange, and there is no sign of bandits." ”

Tang Qianlin said: "You send someone to call the head of the Qian section and them to this family's house." ”

Company Commander Qi hurriedly ordered his men to go to the entrance of the village to call Qian Sinian and the others.

After everyone entered the house, Tang Qianlin stood up and said, "The villagers of Hongtutun have not disappeared, at least they came back last night. ”

Everyone was puzzled, and Qian Sinian subconsciously looked at Zhang Guodong.

Li Yunfan walked into the house at this time: "What Old Tang said is right, they came back to live at least last night." ”

Zhang Guodong hurriedly said: "Impossible, I only sent someone to check a few days ago, there is really no one, you have also seen it, there is no one here in broad daylight." ”

Tang Qianlin said: "It's true that there is no one in the daytime, but these people will come back at night." ”

Qian Sinian asked, "Advisor Tang, why did you say that they would come back in the evening?" ”

Tang Qianlin squatted down and stretched out his hand to take out half of the unburned wood from the kang hole: "Everyone knows what this thing is, right?" ”

Zhang Guodong said: "The wood stumbling block used to burn the kang." ”

Tang Qianlin put the unburned wooden stumbling blocks in front of Zhang Guodong's eyes: "I walked several houses in a row just now, and found that there were unburned wooden stumbling blocks in the kang holes of each family, and there was still temperature in some of the kang caves, which means that the people here came back last night." ”

Li Yunfan continued: "Although the weather is warmer now, you still have to burn the kang at night, this is the evidence." ”

Zhang Guodong immediately squatted down, reached out to probe in the kang cave, and found that there was still residual temperature.